Comments

When you leave a comment there are a few things that happen.

When you comment I can see:
– your nickname you gave yourself. It will be published. (You don’t have to enter any.)
– your email address, when you enter it. It won’t be published.
– You don’t have to be logged in to post a comment, but when you are I can see your email address.
– the IP address the comment was made from. It won’t be published.

Then gravatar takes your email address, when you enter it.
– Your email address gets converted to lower-case.
– Your email address gets hashed using MD5 (and looks like this “ab75e1706b233aea17c93732068b49c7″).
– Then it loads […]gravatar.com/avatar/$MD5hash, to show the avatar in my dashboard.
– When there’s no avatar it shows a generated avatar.

Since I display avatars on comments others see:
– the avatar you use for that gravatar account.
– alternatively they see a generated avatar, which is created based on your email address.

Note that the avatar is loaded from [...]gravatar.com/avatar/$MD5hash and that the MD5 hash of your email is contained in the page-source and could be seen by others.

When you leave a comment it will be screened by Akismet to limit SPAM.

Comment Policy

I like that you leave comments, although there might be nothing to comment on. What I write isn’t high quality content so there might be no reason to leave a comment. However if you’d like to say something please go ahead.

I hereby distance myself from any comment made on this blog.

Comment system:

Comments will be closed automatically after 60 days

Comments may be closed earlier, due to SPAM or other unwanted content.

Comments may be not enabled in the first place.

Replying:

I may or may not reply to a comment.

(Re-)using comments:

I allow myself to link to a specific comment.

I allow myself to turn a specific comment into a blog post.

I allow myself to turn a specific comment into a page.

I allow myself to group comments on a page.

I allow myself to file a bug-report from your comment. In which case I give credit by linking to it.

Unwanted comments:

Those comments will not be approved.

Advertisement, SPAM.

Links, that do not contribute to the post.

Content that violates others privacy.

Content that insults others.

Content that is irrelevant.

Content that violates copy-right laws.

Editing of comments:

I allow myself to remove links from comments.

I will not edit the content of a comment, without marking the changes.

I may edit comments on request by the commentator, e.g. to fix spelling mistakes.

In the above case I won’t mark the changes.

I may edit comments on request by a third-party, e.g. someone feels hurt.

In the above case I will mark the changes.

Removal of comments:

This does only apply to comments that got approved already.

I may remove comments on request by the commentator.

I may remove comments on request by a third-party, e.g. copy-right owners.